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The legal basis is created for a prohibition on the importation into Switzerland of species of fauna and flora the specimens of which can be easily confused with species listed in Appendices I to III to the CITES Convention, and which are protected domestically in another country and are shown to be threatened. This measure aims to keep those species of fauna and flora from entering international trade via Switzerland.

The notified draft Resolution amends Exempt Resolution No. 809 of 2003 establishing health requirements for the importation into Chile of laboratory rodents, through:

1.- The replacement of point 1 by the following:
The animals must come from barrier colonies and must be free of viral diseases such as ectromelia, Sendai virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis, and from the following bacterial diseases: salmonella, tularemia, leptospirosis, pseudotuberculosis and rat-bite fever. Furthermore, the laboratories from which the animals come must have had no cases of the following zoonotic diseases: California encephalitis virus, Argentine haemorrhagic fever (Junín virus) and Bolivian haemorrhagic fever (black typhus) .
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5.- The inclusion of the following points 9 and 10:

9.- Upon entry into the country, the parties concerned must submit, together with the health certificate, the exotic wildlife authorization resolution issued by the Renewable Natural Resources Division of the Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) .

10.- If the species to be imported is listed in the appendices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the parties concerned must comply with the requirements established by the Convention and the relevant regulations in force.

The main objective of Resolution No. 217 is to guarantee Ecuador's animal health status through an approval process for establishments that export goods of animal origin to the country. (...)
• Article 7 has been introduced to clarify the procedure for certain livestock products that are to be used for genetic enhancement purposes:

"For establishments wishing to export livestock products for genetic enhancement purposes, such as live bovine animals, sheep and goats, and genetic reproductive material (semen, ova and embryos of animal species intended for livestock production), the veterinary service of the exporting country must send AGROCALIDAD a livestock product export request, attaching the information corresponding to Annex 1 (species health status) of this Resolution. Once the health status has been approved, the same veterinary service shall submit a list of veterinary service-approved establishments that comply with the verifiable procedures that guarantee the sanitary handling of animals or, where appropriate, the biosafety of processes for collecting, processing and storing reproductive material, in accordance with the guidelines set out in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code. The information must be provided in Spanish".

Regulation (EU) 2016/429 in Article 5 and Annex II establishes a harmonised list of transmissible animal diseases ('listed diseases') which pose a risk to animal or public health in the Union. Those listed diseases require different management approaches, set out in Article 9 of the basic regulation, which depend on the seriousness of their impact on public or animal health, economy, society or the environment. The basic regulation sets out predefined criteria for the categorisation of listed disease in order to lay down which listed diseases are to be subject to which management measures. This Commission Implementing Regulation assigns the above referred categories of measures to listed diseases, based on pre-set criteria.

In addition, the rules for the prevention and control of a specific transmissible animal disease should apply to species of animals, which can transmit the disease in question, in accordance with the criteria set out in Article 8 of the basic regulation. This implementing regulation assigns to each listed disease a list of such animal species to which the measures for specific listed diseases will apply in the Union ('listed species') .

The proposed draft Regulation is a new legislative act which updates the list of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern in implementation of the Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species. The list was established by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2016/1141 and was updated by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2017/1263. The notified proposal for a draft Regulation adds further species to the list.

Certain animals and goods - based on the risk they pose to human, animal and plant health, animal welfare and the environment - must be subject to official controls at European Union (EU) borders, more specifically at the border control post of first arrival, before they can enter the Union. (...)

The Official Controls Regulation (EU) 2017/625 empowers the Commission to establish, by means of delegated acts, the cases and conditions under which certain categories of animals and goods may be exempted from checks at border control posts. The categories of animals and goods exempted from checks at border control posts include certain categories of fishery products and certain categories of animals and goods entering the Union through certain Greek islands and through certain French territories.

This Decree is an amendment of the Decree of the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia No. 80/KEPMEN-KP/2015 concerning Designation of Kinds of Quarantine Pests and Diseases of Fish, Categories, Carrier and its Dissemination. (...)

To enhance safe use of pesticides, evaluation on pesticide operators and honeybees is to be introduced, and target species of animals and plants are added for environmental evaluation.